Keep your Mac cool
Improve performance and increase Mac lifespan with Macs Fan Control
Nick Peers
IT WILL TAKE
15 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN
Take full control of your Mac’s fans to cool your computer
YOU’LL NEED
MacOS 10.7 or later, Macs Fan Control
Macs prioritise keeping quiet over cooling components
It doesn’t matter whether you’re running the latest Mac mini or an ageing MacBook, they all suffer from one unavoidable
affliction: heat. The harder you push your Mac’s hardware, the hotter it gets - so every time you do anything taxing, from playing games to editing video, its insides heat up.
The cumulative effect is to stress your Mac’s components and reduce their lifespan, a problem compounded by the fact your fan isn’t necessarily doing all it can to mitigate the rise in temperature. Macs prioritise keeping themselves quiet over cooling your components, relying on their built-in ability to ‘throttle’ the CPU when it hits a certain temperature. Throttling reduces performance while the fan sits practically idle when it should be cooling your Mac.